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How Central Americans Boosted the U.S. Labor Movement

September 06, 2022 (1 min read)

Prof. Elizabeth Oglesby, The Conversation, Aug. 30, 2022

"... I’ve been researching human rights and immigration from Central America since the 1980s. In today’s polarized debates over immigration, the substantial contributions that Central American immigrants have made to U.S. society over the past 30 years rarely come up. One contribution in particular is how Guatemalan and Salvadoran immigrants helped expand the U.S. labor movement in the 1980s, organizing far-reaching workers’ rights campaigns in immigrant-dominated industries that mainstream unions had thought to be untouchable. ..."